Green Violet

That was the old way, welcome to the new way.

eBookHood

Register free to save and share your books. Yeah. Real books that you’ve heard of. How are they doing this? I dunno.

Mygazines

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Matador Study

Teach English abroad. Wouldn’t that be soemthing. Stories of those that are doing it. And tips for international travel.

…when my reading speed is 410 wpm and my comprehension is 100% (per this interesting reading test).

I wouldn’t mind having an open account at Chelsea Green, publishers, whom I follow on Twitter @chelseagreen … See this latest which highlights a book by Charles Dowding, “Salad Leaves for All Seasons”. The post includes a great YouTube video describing successful ways to get the most leaves from your garden. I rather failed at that this year, not taking time to do any seedlings. And I do envy him his greenhouse.

Here I learn of a “mouse repellent that really works”, the aptly named Mouse Magic. (Seems it is mega-minty and that’s something the little buggers cannot stand.)

I’ve always wanted a place to deal with my failed CD burns or (remember?) AOL mailings. This CD Recycling Center does accept CDs and DVDs and is trying to build up a full-country network.

And in closing, Opacity photographs “urban ruins”…something that’s always fascinated me for an unknown reason. I think I had some other sites in a previous blog… Hmm. Ah, well. All is fleeting and decays.

Monday is here already. Successfully avoided doing much computer work (ie: client work) over the week-end, though I watched a really great CSS tutorial, the first three episodes in my iTunes — on converting a Photoshop layout to a clean and semantic site, and have downloaded all: this is way cool and the presentation is clear and the material incredibly useful.

Noted for later: read this interview of Patrick McGrath (I’ve enjoyed “The Grotesque”) and … yes: most interesting. Ah: “Trauma” is his eighth novel; I must investigate.

Have tucked this site on soil fertility and what happens when your N P K is out of balance into my WebNoteHappy (URL-keeping app). Quite informative. With the arid climate, I wonder about potassium… Mmm. More thought required.

A passel of image gallery scripts have caught my eye and I have places for most of them: list, prioritize, execute, move on.

This is a beautiful Flash example: wherein I would actually get into Flash.

Highslide: The original (beautiful!), a useful forum thread, and a Highslide version of Imageflow …. the orig. ImageFlow.

And, of course the SlideShowPro: I want to use that copy of Director I bought but didn’t use for another project.

And the apex: trying to figure how I will buy groceries (ah, an aside: of course I’ll probably be living on yoghurt for the next two weeks) .. but I got my first digital lens. I got a digital body a couple of years ago but had been using my old film-body lenses but my eyes are getting tired/old/flakey and I was having consistent trouble discerning focus on narrow depth of field items (which I like to shoot). It was really depressing and I’d cut way back on taking photos. The impetus for the purchase was the upcoming photo shoot of M’s artwork (and yes, last year the shots were a bit blurry). This years’ need to go into a book and they’re line and ink so clarity is a must.

So I shopped a bit, then went to Idaho Camera and after looking at some choices picked up this one as the best all-’round: the Promaster 18-200 digital XR EDO Auto Focus Zoom for my Pentax *istD.

So, of course I had to take a lot of shots, some of which I’ve uploaded to Flickr.

I read this interview of Ken Wilber and my interest is piqued. Put a couple of his books on my Amazon list so I wouldn’t forget. Perhaps…library? Hmm.

Going though old notes and bits of paper. A key quest in 2008 is Simplify, Organize. I find a scrawled note wherein Rachel B. recommended these books and/or authors:

Joan Didion, Mary Gaitskill, Autobiography of a Face